Even Iraqis see a problem in the UK

According to a UK paper, the Blackburn Citizen:

THE Deputy Prime Minister of Iraq has claimed mosques in Blackburn are more extreme than in his home country, according to an MP.
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"I am not surprised that you British are facing so many problems with extremists after what I saw in those mosques in Blackburn.

"What I saw...would not be allowed here in Iraq - it would be illegal."

and later:

"He went inside the mosques, and said literature he saw would be illegal. He was quite clear. The comments are only directed at a very small proportion of mosques in the UK - the vast majority of Muslims wouldn't want to be labelled."

(found via Islam in Europe)

There is a strange phenomenon going on, in that Mosques in Western Europe are frequently more radical than their counterparts in Islamic countries. The Times did an investigation last year on this very problem. Not surprisingly, sheer ignorance and blind trust on the part of the UK government was one of the primary causes...